Armageddon with phoenix cape and 20+ power from a wizard kicks serious @ss. Amusingly though the armour breaking effect triggers for both players so while the magnetic golems are healed they are easier to kill. The gargoyles though are rocks! You *could* use the elemental gargoyles for the elemental boost but in case of armageddon, magic protection artie is heartily recommended Btw there is a turnaround against the fire's armour breaking effect, that's fire protection from the light tree.

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I don't have H5 installed anymore due to formatting my pc sometime back. That said.. It has been a long time, I could use a good match Check your HC messenger.
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Yes. But frankly, I miss the banned spells, more interesting even at the cost of balance.
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Being human is a roller coaster ride of emotions during rainstorms and sunshine, sprinkled with moments when you can almost reach the stars.

@deck what you failed to mention is my barb kicked your ass on the wiz orc rematch, unfortunately our 1st match was a terrible build, with me having to try respec, losing a whole stack - that being said AWESOME NIGHT OF DUELLING DECK

I particularily liked my swift-minded demon hero casting puppet in your Haven Cavs......just shows the flexiblity of this 1.2 duel map where you can have so many different openings, it's replayability is fantastic and never gets boring (hence why we are still playing this even though H6 is out!)

Btw I plan to make a few balance edits like luck giving +50% dmg and morale +30% atb Should make things fairer. And of course return the missing spells, save maybe rune of charge and divine vengeance.
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- Expert Leadership, Recruitment, Battle Commander, Divine Guidance.
Maybe you could use Divine Guidance to boost your army's iniative while the enemy's most powerful creatures are being frozen by Master of Ice? All the additional low-level troops also benefit from Battle Frenzy.
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Over himself, over his own
body and
mind, the individual is
sovereign.
- John Stuart Mill

For destructive overkill try imbued arrows with a quadruple imbued ballista and the archery set. The ballista acts 30% faster and if you also add the freeze effect.. Ofc a rain of meteor followed by 4 ballista meteors can end a game before it even begins, all you need is some luck with druid initiative, maybe get the dragon greaves.. If you do not have the archery set it is best that you have empathy so that your hero plays before the ballista - when the imbued ballista shoots, your hero's turn is reset.
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Being human is a roller coaster ride of emotions during rainstorms and sunshine, sprinkled with moments when you can almost reach the stars.

I would prefer using meteor shower with the imbued ballista, with favored enemies too, just think how your hero and ballista can destroy many different stacks at once....(and slippers artifact for 50% bonus on earth spells)

Lol they are almost overpowered Which faction troubles you other than sylvan and maybe haven? I'll be happy to show you their strength.
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I think the issue with runemage is the levelling up and how it goes one of 2 ways - it would be great to be able to focus on their speciality - runes and really bolster this, however faced with high moral, attack factions - rune just seems to come up short.

Both. The dwarves are amongst the most adaptable classes, capable of pretty much everything. But unlike necro and academy you are better off with just one magic school and will rarely have the opportunity for a pure destructive caster - though it is awesome when it happens. And that's just as well because one school plus complementary might skills are enough. The runes are just the icing on the cake.
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Being human is a roller coaster ride of emotions during rainstorms and sunshine, sprinkled with moments when you can almost reach the stars.

That is the basic idea yes. Even with rune of charge, divine vengeance and armageddon banned they are pretty good. But their gameplay is as complex and unconventional as it can be annoying, they take some getting used to ____________
Being human is a roller coaster ride of emotions during rainstorms and sunshine, sprinkled with moments when you can almost reach the stars.